| Due to the aging of the population, the high costs | | | | Sometimes a therapist can do all the work and |
| of staying hospitalized and the increasing | | | | the nurse does no longer need to assist. All the |
| prevalence of chronic diseases more and more | | | | personnel involved in a home health care project |
| people opt for home health care services. | | | | are well trained to conduct patient education and |
| Home health care is a program in which the lob of | | | | have a lot of patience with the sick people. Eating, |
| medical trained personnel is to take care of sick | | | | bathing, getting dressed are also activities |
| people that are homebound and can't go to the | | | | performed by the people involved in the home |
| hospital. This means that the patient can't leave | | | | health care program. |
| home by using his own powers or this action | | | | Home health care is a program that helps elder |
| takes a considerable effort for him and should not | | | | people live independently at their homes for as |
| be done. Most of the services offered by the | | | | much as possible, considering the limits of their |
| home health care agencies are of skilled nursing | | | | affections. This program will mostly postpone the |
| care, or physical, speech and occupational therapy. | | | | moment when a fulltime nurse will have to come |
| The patient will have a personal nurse with him, | | | | and take care of the patient. |
| but only part time (mostly for 8 hours a day). | | | | Before choosing a home health care agency the |
| Sometimes exceptions can be made and the | | | | family of the patient that needs recovery will |
| nurse is allowed to have a longer program with | | | | have to see if the agency is an approved |
| the patient. But if the nurse needs to stay more | | | | Medicare provider, for how long the community |
| than four days a week with the patient then a | | | | has been served by the agency, if the agency is |
| date for the end of the project must be specified. | | | | certified by the Joint Commission for the |
| All these rules are different in the USA's states as | | | | Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and if |
| they are related to the amount of money home | | | | the members of the agency are available seven |
| health care patients receive from the state | | | | days a week if necessary. All this gathering of |
| budget. | | | | information will most likely direct the family |
| Home health care is mostly about intravenous | | | | members towards an efficient home health care |
| therapy, professional wound care and pain control. | | | | agency. |